{"id":6071,"date":"2023-08-11T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T04:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6071"},"modified":"2023-08-11T21:29:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T04:29:03","slug":"the-garmin-drivesmart-66-keeps-disappointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6071","title":{"rendered":"The Garmin Drivesmart 66 Keeps Disappointing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The suckiness that is <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=6017\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=6017\">the GPS I mistakenly purchased<\/a> just keeps on coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, I tried to use the device to count down the miles to the unmarked turnoff for where I was going camping east of Chinook Pass. Knowing how generally useless it is for navigating urban traffic, I used a smartphone and Google Maps until I reached Enumclaw, then shifted to the Garmin as I was about to leave cell coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the piece of junk directs me to go literally <em>hundreds<\/em> of miles out of my way and get there via <em>Snoqualmie Pass<\/em>. Yes, from <em>Enumclaw<\/em>. To get some idea of just how staggeringly <em>bad<\/em> that routing is, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/Enumclaw,+WA+98022,+USA\/Whistlin'+Jack+Lodge,+Washington+410,+Naches,+WA,+USA\/@47.0336942,-122.1865155,9z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x5490f200a5429a7f:0x548c7379da19426f!2m2!1d-121.9915003!2d47.2042681!1m5!1m1!1s0x549754bc2b5f3e5d:0x382a22ebafedab3d!2m2!1d-121.0636025!2d46.9406573!3e0?entry=ttu\">here<\/a> is a map showing the route Google Maps recommends to the same general area (i.e., the obvious route, the one any sane person would take). It is necessary to zoom out a bit to see the route via I-90 and I-82 that it wanted me to take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, sure, it&#8217;s harmless in this case because I knew better, but what if I didn&#8217;t? What if I was using the thing to navigate in unfamiliar territory instead of using it to count down the miles to a turnoff that it had been a few years since I last took?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Drivestupid 666 only realized the obvious routing once I had travelled most of the way to Chinook Pass, after spending nearly an hour recommending I turn around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suckiness that is the GPS I mistakenly purchased just keeps on coming. Last week, I tried to use the device to count down the miles to the unmarked turnoff for where I was going camping east of Chinook Pass. Knowing how generally useless it is for navigating urban traffic, I used a smartphone and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6071"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6076,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions\/6076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}